Happy Trails, Prospector // Old Man Luedecke // Kacy & Clayton

HAPPY TRAILS, PROSPECTOR // OLD MAN LUEDECKE // KACY & CLAYTON

• Date: Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
• Time: Doors at 7:00pm, show starts at 8:00pm
• Location: Palace Grand Theatre, 255 King Street
• Cost*: online $25 ($20 youth/seniors**) // at the door $30 ($25 youth/seniors**)

*Plus a small service fee.

**Youth is up to 18 years of age, seniors are 60 years young and up!

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HAPPY TRAILS, PROSPECTOR // CROSS-CANADA

Happy Trails, Prospector is a musical marriage between five lovely Canadians, each of whom sings lead and harmony vocals, offering their audience a diverse (yet cohesive) sound with tons of energy. The five friends are: Patrick Hamilton on guitar, Sarah Hamilton on fiddle, Nathan Smith on fiddle, Miles Zurawell on banjo, and Nico Humby on bass.

This emerging team brings together decades of seasoned musical expertise. As individuals they have traveled across the country and internationally with celebrated bluegrass, Americana, and rock acts. As a unit, they have instructed at bluegrass camps such as Nimblefingers in BC and Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme in Saskatchewan, and have performed at the Cowichan Bluegrass Festival and the Campbell Bay Music Festival.

In January of 2023, the group met up in Whitehorse, Yukon at the Hamilton Compound to record in Bob Hamilton’s Old Crow Recording studio. Their upcoming album The Good, The Bad and the Dreadful is a compilation of the group's favourite Bluegrass, Old-Time and Classic Country songs. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for the album’s release later this year.

www.happytrailsprospector.

OLD MAN LUEDECKE // CHESTER, NS

Old Man Luedecke is the recording and performing name of Christopher Luedecke, two-time JUNO and multi East Coast Music award-winner, and Polaris Prize nominee of Chester, Nova Scotia. Since 2004 he has travelled the world playing festivals, theatres, and clubs. He delights his audiences with his heartfelt command of the stage. Plus, his inspired banjo playing and wry storytelling cut to the heart of normal/extraordinary experience itself.

Born and raised in Toronto, Luedecke followed Thoreauvian and romantic notions to Canada's Yukon where he fell in love and started composing folk songs with a banjo. Since 2005, he has lived rurally on the south shore of Nova Scotia within Canada's music-rich Maritime provinces.

Luedecke has had major appearances at Canadian, Australian and UK festivals and has performed with the likes of Feist, Bahamas, Tim O'Brien, and Rose Cousins. He has built a name and a following that has been uncompromisingly unique and is now firmly established in the top echelon of Canadian folk artists. As the Vancouver Folk Festival says, "He is a musical singularity to be savoured and shared.”

www.oldmanluedecke.com

KACY & CLAYTON // SASKATOON, SK

“We were raised on cattle ranches where we learned how to play traditional country music because that’s what everyone wanted to hear.”

The music Kacy & Clayton make is inextricable from where they grew up. They sing about the kind of people you’d find in Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan (population very few). The hills, barns, and remoteness of the area are in these songs, with a bittersweet acknowledgement that this music has taken them far from home.

Their sound is equal parts homespun and the rare country, blues, and English folk rock these second cousins obsess over and collect. Sixties psych has also woven its way into these new songs; Kacy enjoys telling people that they live 250km from the mental hospital that coined the term ‘psychedelic’.

The result is a sharpening of what Mojo magazine summed up as “A beautiful mix of Kacy's crystalline vocals and Clayton's inventive, deep-groove country guitar” with narrative tales of loss, regret, and yearning alongside vivid portraits of the Northern Great Plains and its isolated inhabitants.

Of Carrying On, Jeff Tweedy said "When I first heard Kacy and Clayton, I was struck by how much detail and nuance they had absorbed from what sounded like a large swath of my record collection. When I told them that they were as good as the artists they were drawing from, I’m not sure they believed me.”

“Our songs for this album are inspired by rural living of the past and present, highlighting the toll that urban dwelling can take on first generation kids moving out of the country into the city.”

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DCMF is grateful for its community partners - this concert is presented with support from Parks Canada Klondike National Historic Sites. The Klondike Institute of Art & Culture has provided generous assistance to support DCMF 2023. The presentation of Kacy & Clayton is supported by the Yukon Arts Centre with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Yukon Government, and Northwestel Hanging Sky Tour. DCMF also receives and is thankful for financial support from the Government of Canada, Government of Yukon, and the City of Dawson.

We gratefully acknowledge that the Dawson City Music Festival Association carries out its activities on the traditional and contemporary territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. The Hän People have gathered to share music, traditions, and culture along the Yukon River for millennia; a legacy that we take inspiration from and work to support.

www.dcmf.com